Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has said that United Democratic Alliance (UDA) is not the only party in the hustler nation family.
In a statement issued on Saturday, September 4, 2021, Kuria noted that the hustler nation was started as a mass movement and can't be owned by any particular individual.
The legislator took issue with a section of Mt. Kenya MPs allied to UDA who met on Saturday in Nanyuki, Laikipia County.
"I note with concern attempts by the team of my fellow Mt Kenya MPs who met in Aberdares today to label all other parties as regional, tribal or selfish.
"The truth of the matter is that the United Democratic Alliance which they purport to portray as the ONLY vehicle in the region is only one member of the Hustler Nation. Further, the Hustler Nation is and can not be owned by any particular individual as we started it all as a mass movement and an idea whose time has come.
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"It is also a fact that UDA is perceived to be dominated by incumbent MPs who are hell-bent to lock out their potential challengers out of the 2022 race. Further, a party that has only 1 MP and 2 MCAs from Kiambu, Nyandarua and Nakuru can not claim to have bragging rights to brand all other parties as regional or tribal," part of the statement reads.
A section of Mt. Kenya MPs who met with DP William Ruto in Laikipia.
The MP adds," This is the kind of hubris and chest thumping that destroyed the Jubilee Party which we formed with so much hope and enthusiasm. It is the clearest attempt to take us to the days of the one party state and the dark KANU era. I was in the clamour for multi-partyism and the second liberation alongside Hon Mwangi Kiunjuri and Hon Martha Karua, as a young and vibrant student leader at the University of Nairobi. I am not as young and vibrant today and I can not go back to the streets to fight for multi-partyism again. I can only guard what is there.
"The price of freedom is vigilance. We embrace and all ready for team work, to work with everyone towards economic emancipation of all Hustlers. But we can not afford to close our eyes and forget contemplary history, let alone missing to learn from it. We are cognisant that history is a terrible bed to sleep in yet it is a wonderful lesson to learn.
"It is this lesson that we failed to learn from the warning signals of 1992 and 1997 that led this country to a near armageddon of 2007/2008. If we had learnt this lesson in 1992 and 1997, a child who was thrown from the BOTTOM of a Church UP a window on 30th December 2007 would have survived.
"I look forward to working with like-minded colleagues in the hustler nation movement to realistically uplift the lives of all Hustlers. I am a man on a mission to defend our hard-fought democratic gains. In this mission have no space to retreat nor luxury to surrender. UDA is not the only political party in the Hustler Nation Family. Any other narrative is false, outdated, and ill-intentioned."
A section of Tangatanga allied troops from Mt Kenya are holding a three-day meeting in Nanyuki with DP William Ruto in what they claim is crafting the region's economic blueprint for the hustler nation.
